PSY 225 Final Exam Questions and
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Development - ✔✔Systematic changes & continuities that occur between conception and
death
Biological aging - ✔✔Organ decay (eyes, teeth, etc.)
Psychological Aging - ✔✔more accepting/loving with age
Age Grade Periods: - ✔✔prenatal, infancy, preschool, middle school, adolescence, early
adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood
Age Grade Assignments - ✔✔Adolescents, Adult, Seniors. (status-roles-privileges-
responsibilites)
Age Norms - ✔✔expected behaviors & characteristics
(senior citizen: settle down retire)
Maturation - ✔✔Nature - intellect, sexuality, personality
Environment - ✔✔Nurture - impacts values and behaviors
"Social Clock" - ✔✔expected time for changes in ones life -- ex: marriage age. dating age. grow
up/mature. when to have a child. first job. etc.
Good Theory - ✔✔Internally consistent-
, Falsifiable-
Supported by data-
Parsimonious-
Theoretical Issues - ✔✔Nature-
Nurture-
Activity-
Passivity-
Continuity-
Discontinuity-
Four Major Theories - ✔✔Psychoanalytic Theory (Sigmund Freud)
Neo-Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory (Erickson)
Learning Theories-
Cognitive Developmental Theory (Jean Piaget)
Contextual/Systems Theories
Classical Conditioning - ✔✔(Watson's "little albert" & Pavlov's dogs): involves pairing a
previously neutral stimulus (such as the sound of a bell) with an unconditioned stimulus (the
taste of food). This unconditioned stimulus naturally and automatically triggers salivating as a
response to the food, which is known as the unconditioned response. After associating the
neutral stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus, the sound of the bell alone will start to evoke
salivating as a response. The sound of the bell is now known as the conditioned stimulus and
salivating in response to the bell is known as the conditioned response.
Operant Conditioning - ✔✔(B.F. Skinner). A form of learning in which behavior becomes more
or less probable depending on the reinforcement of punishment
Dominent Genes - ✔✔Gene is expressed, And is expressed phenotypically
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Development - ✔✔Systematic changes & continuities that occur between conception and
death
Biological aging - ✔✔Organ decay (eyes, teeth, etc.)
Psychological Aging - ✔✔more accepting/loving with age
Age Grade Periods: - ✔✔prenatal, infancy, preschool, middle school, adolescence, early
adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood
Age Grade Assignments - ✔✔Adolescents, Adult, Seniors. (status-roles-privileges-
responsibilites)
Age Norms - ✔✔expected behaviors & characteristics
(senior citizen: settle down retire)
Maturation - ✔✔Nature - intellect, sexuality, personality
Environment - ✔✔Nurture - impacts values and behaviors
"Social Clock" - ✔✔expected time for changes in ones life -- ex: marriage age. dating age. grow
up/mature. when to have a child. first job. etc.
Good Theory - ✔✔Internally consistent-
, Falsifiable-
Supported by data-
Parsimonious-
Theoretical Issues - ✔✔Nature-
Nurture-
Activity-
Passivity-
Continuity-
Discontinuity-
Four Major Theories - ✔✔Psychoanalytic Theory (Sigmund Freud)
Neo-Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory (Erickson)
Learning Theories-
Cognitive Developmental Theory (Jean Piaget)
Contextual/Systems Theories
Classical Conditioning - ✔✔(Watson's "little albert" & Pavlov's dogs): involves pairing a
previously neutral stimulus (such as the sound of a bell) with an unconditioned stimulus (the
taste of food). This unconditioned stimulus naturally and automatically triggers salivating as a
response to the food, which is known as the unconditioned response. After associating the
neutral stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus, the sound of the bell alone will start to evoke
salivating as a response. The sound of the bell is now known as the conditioned stimulus and
salivating in response to the bell is known as the conditioned response.
Operant Conditioning - ✔✔(B.F. Skinner). A form of learning in which behavior becomes more
or less probable depending on the reinforcement of punishment
Dominent Genes - ✔✔Gene is expressed, And is expressed phenotypically
